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Sun: is a star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.
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JUL 13, 2015Earth & The Environment
When you think about an ice age, the first things that come to mind are ice, snow, and the end of the world in an extinc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2015Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
Space never ceases to amaze and fascinate us humans. Every time a new discovery is made, it can completely revolutionize ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
In the 1990's and 2000's there was a golf course building boom going on in Japan, but not surprisingly, that ended up le ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
Supernova. Pulsar. Black hole. All of these are celestial events that astronomers study, hoping to find clues about how ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 01, 2015Plants & Animals
How do you imagine a nice a boat ride in the water? With the sun shining and some fishing poles in the water, or maybe a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 01, 2015Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 29, 2015Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 27, 2015Videos
On a bright day when you go outside, you're more than likely to start squinting. It's the body's natural response to lim ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Who hasn't had the experience of encountering a giant spider, with big scary eyes and creepy crawly legs? Fear, followed ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 23, 2015Videos
Have you ever stopped to wonder why one person might be left-handed and another right-handed? Or maybe, why one person m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
Who remembers being 15 years old? Wasn't life great? Hanging out with friends, playing video games and probably slacking ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 09, 2015Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
It's taken more than 100 days since its launch, but NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, (referred to as the DSCOVR sa ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
Very often, when referring to some simple theory or basic explanation of something, we hear "Well, it's not rocket scien ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting ever-so-close to its rare fly-by event in July, and as it gets closer, informa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 02, 2015Technology
As we delve into the hotter months of summer, you've probably already started turning down your air conditioning thermos ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 02, 2015Earth & The Environment
Fusion power, the holy grail of energy generation. If researchers could get a fusion reactor going and keep it going, we ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 28, 2015Neuroscience
A Stanford University study, described in Scientific Reports and reported by Laura Sanders in Science News, shows that c ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 23, 2015Videos
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom found over one hundred mutations associated wit ...Written By: Kareem HeslopMAY 22, 2015Earth & The Environment
Remember the Cold War? Those were good times, weren't they? Ska music, track suits, the US and the USSR working together ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAY 21, 2015Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
JUL 13, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When you think about an ice age, the first things that come to mind are ice, snow, and the end of the world in an extinc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If you've been paying attention to the New Horizons mission, you may have noticed that the probe won't be going into orb
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Space never ceases to amaze and fascinate us humans. Every time a new discovery is made, it can completely revolutionize
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 05, 2015
Earth & The Environment
In the 1990's and 2000's there was a golf course building boom going on in Japan, but not surprisingly, that ended up le
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Supernova. Pulsar. Black hole. All of these are celestial events that astronomers study, hoping to find clues about how
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 01, 2015
Plants & Animals
How do you imagine a nice a boat ride in the water? With the sun shining and some fishing poles in the water, or maybe a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 01, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In today's technology there's a lot of talk about "the cloud" and how all of our documents and data can be stored "virtu
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 27, 2015
Videos
On a bright day when you go outside, you're more than likely to start squinting. It's the body's natural response to lim
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
Who hasn't had the experience of encountering a giant spider, with big scary eyes and creepy crawly legs? Fear, followed
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 23, 2015
Videos
Have you ever stopped to wonder why one person might be left-handed and another right-handed? Or maybe, why one person m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Who remembers being 15 years old? Wasn't life great? Hanging out with friends, playing video games and probably slacking
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 14, 2015
Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Often, when the idea of total conversion to clean energy for the US is proposed, the chorus in return is: that's just no
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It's taken more than 100 days since its launch, but NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, (referred to as the DSCOVR sa
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Very often, when referring to some simple theory or basic explanation of something, we hear "Well, it's not rocket scien
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting ever-so-close to its rare fly-by event in July, and as it gets closer, informa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2015
Technology
As we delve into the hotter months of summer, you've probably already started turning down your air conditioning thermos
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Fusion power, the holy grail of energy generation. If researchers could get a fusion reactor going and keep it going, we
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 28, 2015
Neuroscience
A Stanford University study, described in Scientific Reports and reported by Laura Sanders in Science News, shows that c
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 23, 2015
Videos
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom found over one hundred mutations associated wit
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
MAY 22, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Remember the Cold War? Those were good times, weren't they? Ska music, track suits, the US and the USSR working together
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 21, 2015
Cancer
When people reach late middle age, about a quarter of their skin cells carry cancer-driving mutations caused by exposure
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider